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Café Neandertal

Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
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May 03, 2017mscardiglia rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I stuck with this book for 140 or so of its 290 pages. I would estimate that maybe 1/3 of those 140 were actually about Neanderthal/Neandertal, and those parts were very insightful and science based. The rest of what I read was the personal travelogue of the author and this became tedious. The whole "I am walking were Neandertal walked, and picking the same plants" thing got really, really, old. She did a good job illuminating why parts of western Europe were hospitable to Neandertal, but I did not care for the long meandering sections about her personal feelings about the places. Your mileage may vary.